Over the next two weeks, three billion people will watch the Summer Olympics in Paris. And French taxpayers will spend more than $11-billion to host what is little more than a two-week party and receive little-to-no net benefit.
Like with past such events around the world, purpose-built infrastructure will either be disassembled or retained for decades at tremendous cost in regular maintenance and upkeep for the occasional event that will use it but otherwise sit idle.
A mother has become the first person to be jailed under Australia’s forced marriage laws, for ordering her daughter to wed a man who would later murder the 21-year-old.
Sakina Muhammad Jan, who is in her late 40s, was found guilty of coercing Ruqia Haidari to marry 26-year-old Mohammad Ali Halimi in 2019, in exchange for a small payment.
Six weeks after the nuptials, Halimi killed his new bride – a crime for which he is now serving a life sentence.
This is wild 🤯
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h/t Mauser
Tommy Robinson has ‘fled the country’ after committing ‘flagrant’ contempt of court relating to a film played at a protest in central London, the High Court has been told.
Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was due to appear at the Royal Courts of Justice on Monday for a hearing in his latest contempt of court case but was not in attendance.
The Solicitor General launched legal action against Robinson in June over an alleged breach of a court order after he lost a libel battle in 2021.
BREAKING: Police have declared a “major incident” after reports of a stabbing at a property on Hart Street, Southport.
There are believed to be a number of casualties, according to Merseyside Police.
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Update: “Mark Henderson, 38 years, of Albert Road in Southport has been charged with attempted murder. h/t Canucklehead
TLN aired an interview with Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and his wife, Anaida, on the weekend. If Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tuned in, it must have ruined his vacation. Should the Conservatives win the next election, little of what Mr. Trudeau’s Liberal government enacted will survive.
Mr. Poilievre rarely grants interviews with the major networks or news publications. But he is open to speaking with other media, including ones aimed at various ethnic communities. The half-hour program on TLN, hosted by Camila Gonzalez, aired Saturday and Sunday evening, and will also be available on YouTube.
The LPC hasn’t built anything other than a mountain of debt.
A firebrand Muslim cleric eyed up an island on the border of the United States and Canada to purchase and turn into an Islamic state.
In a video to his followers, Sheikh Yasser al-Habib, 45, an extremist scholar who already runs military-style training camps, revealed he is in advanced talks to buy an island off the west coast of Scotland.
His group plans to build its own school, hospital and mosque on the island, where it intends to practice sharia law.
Canadians are feeling negative about their personal finances this quarter, even following the recent interest rate cut by the Bank of Canada (BOC), according to the latest MNP Consumer Debt Index conducted by Ipsos.
MNP LTD said 56% of Canadians expressed concern interest rates have not gone down fast enough to provide the financial relief they require, and 57% will need interest rates to go down way more before their financial situation improves. It added two-thirds desperately need interest rates to go down.
New CCTV footage of arrests at Manchester Airport shows the men acting “disgracefully” towards police, the government’s independent adviser on political violence has said.
Lord Walney added, however, that the armed Greater Manchester police officer who kicked and stamped on the man’s head as he lay on the ground after being Tasered used “excessive force”.
In March 2023, executives from Canada’s three largest grocery companies paid a visit to Parliament Hill.
Michael Medline, Galen Weston and Eric La Fleche had been summoned before a House of Commons committee to answer questions about their companies’ rising profits. Facing MPs, they denied accusations of raising prices beyond what inflation warranted.
With floods and wildfires overwhelming municipal infrastructure across Canada these days, is it really a good idea for federal and provincial governments to have earmarked over $52 billion to subsidize the manufacture of electric vehicles and EV batteries?
Decent propaganda is usually subtler than the media’s current attempt to rewrite the vice president’s story.
In case you haven’t heard, Vice President Kamala Harris is the presumptive 2024 Democratic presidential nominee.
Yes, through some combination of backroom political machinations and plain dumb luck, the woman who dropped out of the 2020 Democratic primary a full eight weeks before the Iowa caucuses — and without a single pledged delegate! — may become the next president of the United States.
Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer was one of the best films of 2023, if not the best.
The film had none of the elements that usually make audiences cheer. It had no superheroes, special effects, stunts, or any spectacle. Instead, it was bleak, was partly in black and white, and mostly had people talking in closed rooms.
Yet the film earned $975 million at the global box office and universal acclaim from critics. It won most of the awards, including top prizes at the Oscars for direction, writing, and acting.
“One of the dangers that democracies face is that of the machinery of government morphing into a political party with its own culture, traditions, methods and, needless to say, interests — above all that of self-perpetuation. Thus, the US has a third, invisible party, besides the Republicans and Democrats.”
In Canada the machinery of government has been co-opted by the Liberal-left.
A recent Politico article breathlessly reported on Kamala Harris’s enhanced standing as the newly anointed “favourite daughter” of the Bay Area political cabal, led by Nancy Pelosi, powerful Silicon Valley oligarchs, and progressive Hollywood moguls. But as this group celebrates its most recent political coup against the hapless and outmatched Joe Biden, few are examining what their policy agenda has imposed on my adopted home state. This could spell trouble for Harris in November.
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